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Celebrate National Library Week! Books I Love: Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood

Here at TGBTS, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book. For years, I’ve been curious about working mothers and how they do it all. It turns out the answer depends on the woman.

While not yet a mother, I am a woman born between 1965 and 1980 looking for greater happiness and balance between work and home.

Are you?

If so, you need to read this book. It’s written for women just like us.

Hollee and Becky surveyed more than 900 women and conducted in-depth interviews with over 100 of them about their thoughts on working and parenting. This book is the result of their research as well as expert research on marriage, feminism and business. Hollee and Becky’s personal stories are intertwined throughout the chapters.

The unexpected twist? For me, it reads like part my own personal history book (my neck hurts from nodding my head in agreement) and part yoga book.

Yoga?

Yep, possibly an unintended consequence, but I kept thinking about my own yoga practice of self-compassion, kindness and letting go while I was reading this book.

4 thoughts on “Celebrate National Library Week! Books I Love: Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood”

@nancy: you really do need this book. it’s well written and easy reading. man, it made so much sense. it’s on amazon for $10 and will be on e-reader in may. definitely follow hollee and becky on twitter for all #thenewperfect news.

@drjen: thanks for coming by. thanks! i am so happy with how it all turned out. i’ve been eagerly awaiting the book for so long. it’s so great. i’ve been recommending it to everyone i know. so excited for becky and hollee and all the amazing women (ahem, YOU) in it!